Losing Him (Only His Series: Book 4) *OLD VERSION*

Chapter 40

Alex's P.O.V

"Alex?!" I heard John yell. John, what the hell is he doing here? I almost immediately appeared before him.

"What are you doing here, John?" I asked him.

"Something happened and you're going to be angry, but Lucien wants you to be angry. He's trying to lure you into a trap in order to hurt Klaus." John explained to me.

"What did he do?" I asked him.

"Promise me you won't fly off the handle and do something crazy. Promise me." John said. I turned my head and saw the bite on John's arm. I took his arm and pulled up the sleeve, examining the bite. "Before you lose it... Alex, look at me." I looked at him worried and scared. "I love you. And I won't let you get yourself killed for me."

"John -" I said to him in a broken tone. He fell to his knees and I kneeled down in front of him. "Klaus!" I yelled.

"Alex, what is it? What's wrong?" He asked as he and everybody else walked downstairs to me, thinking something was wrong with me. And something was.

"I just need you to know -" John said and shut his eyes.

"John! John! No, No, please!" I said to him and turned around to everybody else. "Help me get him upstairs."

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I turned around from Freya, with Klaus, carrying a cloth and an open jar, Freya following behind him, to John. "Hold still. This is going to burn." I said to him. I sat on the sofa next to him and took his arm, pressing the cloth to his bite. John gasped in pain immediately as the substance on the cloth irritated the bite.

"Ow, ow, what is that?" John asked me.

"It's a healing salve. Motherwort, white willow bark, the recipe over a thousand years old." Freya explained to him.

"So the good stuff, huh?" He asked her.

"It will ease the pain, dull the symptoms, but it won't stop the infection," Freya said.

"So I'm screwed?" John asked and I rolled my eyes at him.

"We're gonna do everything that we can, John," Hayley said to him.

"And you're not screwed, idiot," I said and he looked at me. "Not while I'm around." He chuckled at my determination while I just smirked.

"Alex," John said and I looked at him.

"What? You think I'm letting you die, think again." I said and he shook his head.

"It's not that." John looked down. "I was at Cami's house because she had been telling me how you were with everything that was going on and all." Good, to know you still care. "But when Lucien came in...He-"

"He what?" Klaus asked him and John looked up at him.

"He ripped out her heart," John said and I sat there frozen in shock. The room went silent. When Elijah walked into the room followed by Vincent, it snapped me out of my thoughts.

"I brought a little assistance," Elijah said to us.

"John, I'm so sorry," Vincent said to him. John had slowly earned the trust of all my friends and family. Even Klaus, in case you were confused.

"You should be, this is your fault. It was you who turned Lucien into a beast." Klaus said to him. He began to advance on Vincent, Elijah stopped him with a hand on his shoulder.

"Klaus, stop. It's not his fault." I said to him.

"Alex's right. We all need to work together to fix this." Hayley said to them.